Drying-shed for brick-molds.



'PATENTED APR. 21, 1903.

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'FRANK DANKS, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

DRYING-SHED FOR BRlCK-MOLDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 725,940, dated April 21, 1903. Application filed July 16, 1902. Serial No 116,834. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, FRANK DANKS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New-York,

have invented new and useful Improvements in Drying-Sheds for Brick-Molds, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to improvements in drying-sheds for curing green-brick molds; and the object is to provide an improved movable rack-yard wherebyseveral steps in the usual modes of handling and rehandling bricks are done away with and breakage and expense of production reduced to a low figure.

I accomplish the purposes and objects of my invention by the constructions and mechanisms illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and wherein Figure l is a side view in elevation of the drier and the mechanism for moving it on the track. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the base or floor of the drier, a portion of it being shown as covered with bricks.

It will be premised that the primary purpose'of my invention is 'to construct a structure to be utilized as an outdoor drying-yard, possessing advantages of capacity and effectiveness not associated with the usual drying beds or grounds of a brick-yard.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a circular or annular track of such diameter as may suffice for the purpose. The rails of the track are held in relation to each other by means of ties l, to which they are spiked in the usual manner. On the track is supported a segmental annular or circular floor 2, constituting thebase of the drier. This floor 2 is supported by means of depending hangers or brackets 3, arranged at determined distances apart around the floor, and wherein are journaled suitable shafts 4:, on which are mounted flanged wheels 5, running on the tracks, and to the outerface of the floor is secured a rack-bar 6, extending around the floor, with its teeth in the lower edge. At determined points in the floor are secured the lower ends of upright 7, extendingto such height as may be required to suit the vertical capacity of the drier and support on their upper ends a roof 8 to protect the bricks from the effects of the elements. At stated points in the roof lot the drawings. power is applied to the pulley 19 the associated" mechanism'will be actuated to turn the are mounted stacks Q to create a draft from below and draw off moisture and insure rapidity inthe process of drying. On the annular floor 2 are laid or piled in vertical series or succession the pallets or boards 10, on which the green molds are laid, arranged so as to have interstices between them to permit both lateral and vertical ventilation between them.

To move the drier bodily around the track, the following-described mechanism is provided: Apit 11 is made below the track, and therein is laid a strong foundation-floor 12, from which rise standards 13, which support the track where it extends across the pit. On the floor 12 is mounted a frame which carries the operating mechanism. This frame consists of oppositely-arranged posts 1415, an intermediate shorter post16, and a bracepiece 17, connecting and bracing all of'th'e posts, substantially as shown. In the posts 16 and 15 is journaled a shaft 18, which projects beyond its bearing in the post 15. and

has mounted a fast pulley19 and a loose pulley 20, on the'former of which a driving-belt may be applied to drive the 1nechanism,which belt may be shifted to the loose pulley when it is desired to stop the mechanism. On the shaft 18 is mounted a pinion 21 in mesh with a gear-wheel 22 on a shaft 23, journaled in the upper ends of the posts 1 1 15. On the shaft 23 is a worm-gear24, which engages with a gear-wheel 25, which in turn engages with therack 6, substantially as seen in Fig. It will be seen that when drier, so that all portions of the vertical surface of the drier will be in succession subjected to action of currents of the air. The advantages of this drier over the present are the saving in' labor and expense. Under the present handling and portage of the bricks they are placed on trucks and carried to the bed or floor of the yard and when partly dried hacked in piles, and when dry they are loaded on wheelbarrows and taken to the kiln for burning, whereas by my mode the bricks are not handled until placed'in the kiln.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. Adrier for green bricks, comprising a projected from the roof, pallets arranged on the floor in vertical succession, an annular rack-bararound the floor, asuitably-mounted shaft, a driving-pulley on the shaft, a pinion thereon, a second shaft, a gear and a worm thereon, and a gear-wheel engaged by the Worm and in mesh with the rack on the floor. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK DANKS. Witnesses:

DAVID MOREY, SOLOMON W. RUSSELL, Jr. 

